Iditarod registration begins Saturday

We are 252 days away from the 2015 Iditarod. Mushers will start to register Saturday June 28 at the Wasilla headquarters for the race next year.

Along with race registration, there is an annual meeting and picnic planned. Activities are scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Mushers have until Dec. 1 to sign up for the Last Great Race.

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Politics

House panel moves bill requesting sexual assault kit report

by Associated Press on Mar 31, 10:56

A House committee advanced a bill requesting a report on untested sexual assault kits after hearing public testimony supporting the effort. House State Affairs on Tuesday moved a new version of Rep. Geran Tarr’s bill, which would direct the state Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement to produce a report on untested sexual […]

Anchorage Centennial

Local photographer featured in centennial documentary ‘Anchorage Is’

by Daybreak Staff on Mar 31, 10:38

Local photographer Clark James Mishler hasn’t missed taking someone’s portrait every day for the past five years. His work is featured in Anchorage’s official centennial celebration documentary “Anchorage Is…” “I think there’s a lot of photographic projects in the world where people go out and make a photo a day,” Mishler said. “I thought I would up […]

News

Huslia board of fisheries member reappointed

by Associated Press on Mar 31, 8:44

Orville Huntington has been re-appointed to another term on the Alaska Board of Fisheries. Gov. Bill Walker appointed Huntington, a Huslia resident, to a three-year term that would begin July 1. The appointment must be confirmed by the Legislature. Huntington was first appointed to the board by former Gov. Sean Parnell in 2012. His current […]

Weather

Daybreak weather, March 31

by Brett Shepard on Mar 31, 8:27

Southcentral Mostly cloudy skies today with a good chance of rain showers for the Prince William Sound and eastern Kenai Peninsula. Southeast Cloudy skies with a good chance of rain at times. Interior Partly cloudy skies and mild. North Slope Mostly cloudy skies throughout the day. Western Alaska Chilly to the north and mild to […]

On-Air

Mystery disease: Fingernails tell all

by Ivanhoe Newswire on Mar 31, 7:36

Imagine losing your hair, vomiting every time you ate and living in extreme pain. Now, imagine if doctors couldn’t help you because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. That’s exactly what happened to one woman — art teacher, Ingrid Dick. Dick says she loves watching her students at work, “just seeing what comes out of […]

Politics

House poised to consider school bond bill

by Associated Press on Mar 31, 6:52

The Alaska House is poised to consider legislation that would pause state spending on new school debt. SB 64 passed the Senate last week. A legislative attorney, in a memo to Senate Finance co-chair Anna MacKinnon, says the bill would have to pass the Legislature and be signed by the governor before an Anchorage election […]

Lifestyle

Drone development in Alaska still on track

by Kate McPherson on Mar 30, 23:23

Funding cuts to the University of Alaska system threatened the state’s unmanned aircraft development program, but a Senate subcommittee restored the nearly $1.9 million needed for fiscal year 2016. There are still a number of steps in the legislative process before the funding is confirmed, but staff and engineers with the Alaska Center for Unmanned […]

Sports

Annie Rush gets hat trick as West beats East, 4-0

by KTVA Sports on Mar 30, 22:46

It was not until the second half of the game when the West Anchorage High School girls soccer team started pulling away from East High during Monday’s 4-0 win over the T-Birds. But when it rained it poured, as Annie Rush scored three goals and her sister, Rosie, added another. Less than five minutes into […]